Category: climate negotiations

Don’t need any convincing to sign on? Go straight to http://dotheparispledge.org/ BankTrack, the international NGO tracking the investments of private sector banks and their effect on people and the planet, has recently...

We took action last Sunday… Heads in the Sand last Sunday, in which a thousand or so New Zealanders at 12 beaches around the country put their heads in the sand to symbolise the Government’s failure to act on climate...

Guest blog by Tarsh Turner, a member of the NZ Youth Delegation at the climate talks in Lima. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been working to avert climate disaster for over two decades....

After all the photos and the extensive media coverage, we are now getting video of Sunday’s Heads in the Sand events. Here is video of the Christchurch, Invercargill and Bethells Beach (West Auckland) events. Christchurch...

Yesterday’s Heads in the Sand events were a great success. At 12 beaches from Invercargill to Ahipara, hundreds of New Zealanders – possibly a thousand all up – gathered to send an unambiguous message to John...

Our Government, with its relentless focus on minerals extraction policies and addiction to dairy, has got its head in the sand on climate change. We’ve had enough of its weak, “let everyone else go first” attitude on climate,...

Our charming Prime Minister – and Minister of Tourism – has excelled himself with his latest video promoting drilling, fracking and the general digging up of our beautiful country and its offshore marine environment....

In which expert advisory work from the PCE illustrates why the ETS in its present form risks a massive lignite subsidy, and Tim Groser — quite rightly — observes that this would be “ridiculous” and “incoherent”...

It turns out that Copenhagen was, in fact, more of a failure than we knew: it was not the destination some hoped, not even another milestone, but a rock in the road so large that we may need to take another route. Read...